tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post1006927988975494547..comments2024-03-23T05:55:29.759-04:00Comments on Bonsai from the Right: Detroit Is The Most Messed Up CityChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12905362327313044045noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-20312218787000459502009-12-12T08:00:28.732-05:002009-12-12T08:00:28.732-05:00You are spot on with that on AL. I remember when i...You are spot on with that on AL. I remember when it was 10 to 1 in favor of the libs on these blogs. Things have changed and the conservative voice is awake and fighting madd. Liberals have only just started taking their own medicine or Karma if you're Hindu. And as weak and thin skinned as the Democrats are I'm sure we will see quit a few more of them going over the edge.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12905362327313044045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-26806072304270860692009-12-11T21:05:34.569-05:002009-12-11T21:05:34.569-05:00Is it just me or does anybody NOTICE when a Subjec...Is it just me or does anybody NOTICE when a Subject comes UP that Shows Liberal Outcomes such as City of Detroit or other Stellar Examples of Liberal Ideas at work LIBS on this BLOG DISAPPEAR! At least you d think they would BLAME it on BUSH,it is their Standard Answer to ALL things they cannot Explain Away, and it will always be their WEAKNESS,The TRUTH!ALnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-24031383064383762612009-12-11T13:40:35.201-05:002009-12-11T13:40:35.201-05:00BWAAAAHAHAHAHA ... 2 comments?!? What are they qui...BWAAAAHAHAHAHA ... 2 comments?!? What are they quizzing each other about which one likes the taste of Obummer's "tea bags" more?!!? LOL What a bunch of dipshits. Failk's blog is likely too radical even for your "normal" run-of-the-mill lieberal Hypocrat. Even Failk is too extreme, look how he defends those crooked Hypocrats in a knee-jerk reactionary way.<br /><br />Bruce Failk just refuses to acknowledge that Anthropogenic Global Cooling is a documented reality and that we must take steps to increase CO2 output to try to warm this planet. He refuses to acknowledge that the Hypocrats are the most crooked party ever in the history of These United States of America. He refuses to acknowledge that the Hypocrats are the most racist party even though they have an active member of the Klan as a sitting Senator. Keep your head in the sand and keep quizzing each other over on your blog Failk!! BWAAAAHAHAHAHAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-5769093668642679572009-12-11T13:34:18.599-05:002009-12-11T13:34:18.599-05:00Byrd?!??! Is that old Klu Klux Klan Grand Klegel s...Byrd?!??! Is that old Klu Klux Klan Grand Klegel still alive? Boy, a 105-year old geriatric with dementia, there's some hope and change for you. Still, it's about the best the Hypocrats can do.<br /><br />Failk, what do you think about that Jew-hating racist Byrd, think he's some great Hypocrat?! You must be proud of him. Did he even attend that black man's inauguration, or did he fake an illness so he didn't have to? And now that black man Obummer is getting back at him, kind of like reparations, by shutting down clean coal plants and the like. If I didn't know any better I would say that Obummer is trying to increase the price of oil and energy. I bet his cronies have a stock in some energy companies that will directly profit from this. Dirty Hypocrats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-33472263627117924722009-12-11T13:29:47.775-05:002009-12-11T13:29:47.775-05:00I was on the fealk blog and I have to say it was t...I was on the fealk blog and I have to say it was the dumbest blog ever. he has 2 people comment on it. the one person sounds special. and whats up with the racist dude holding a fish? chris if I was you I would stay away from that group of mental handymen. I wouldn't put anything past those dudes.Obama sucks my fealknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-22669689843829241442009-12-11T13:22:18.212-05:002009-12-11T13:22:18.212-05:00Well, it’s not like the state voted for the curren...Well, it’s not like the state voted for the current President anyway. Hell, the often-strained history between West Virginians and national Democrats stretches back to 1863. Still, this is a little… petty… of the Democratic party, isn’t it?<br /><br />A Pittsburgh-based coal company, CONSOL Energy, will lay off nearly 500 of its West Virginia workers next year and its CEO blames environmentalists dead-set against mountaintop mining who have waged “nuisance” lawsuits for the job loss.<br /><br />But CONSOL Energy’s political problems are not unique to the mining industry, which has suffered under the Obama Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency is already holding 79 surface mining permits in West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee. The EPA says these permits could violate the Clean Water Act and warrant “enhanced” review. And, agency went even further in October, announcing plans to revoke a permit for the Spruce No. 1 Mine in West Virginia.<br /><br />Via Dana Loesch (via Instapundit) which also has video of the President casually talking about strangling future coal power generation: I’d also like to note that this should come as no surprise to anybody. You Were Warned. Repeatedly. I Told You So. Finally, I’m sure that local Democrats Congressmen Alan Mollohan* and Nick Rahall**, Senator Jay Rockefeller, and Senator Robert Byrd’s staff are all quiveringly eager to explain to their constituents why their own political party is using the federal government to promote a Crusade against the state of West Virginia.<br /><br />Or perhaps they’re just quivering.Obama sucks my fealknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-82496662013807823782009-12-11T12:57:21.121-05:002009-12-11T12:57:21.121-05:00Bureaucrats Crack Down on Windmill
Posted by Van H...Bureaucrats Crack Down on Windmill<br />Posted by Van Helsing at December 11, 2009<br />http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/12/bureaucrats-cra-1.html<br /><br />There isn't much you can do without major hassles in a world micromanaged by petty tyrant bureauweenies — even if you're a moonbat just trying to be green. Larry Walth put up a $10,000 wind turbine to help meet his electricity needs in Wishek, North Dakota. He righteously bleats:<br /><br />It's energy and it's not coming from coal, which is not clean. I've got grandchildren and I'm concerned about their future and our environment.<br /><br />You might think authorities would be pleased. But no:<br /><br />In April, he was denied a permit to put up the wind turbine because it does not meet zoning codes for residential districts. But, in defiance of city officials, he put it up two months later anyway. And now he intends to keep it standing on his two-lot property on the edge of town.<br /><br />Walth believes he is on firm legal ground since he put up the structure five months before city officials passed a new city zoning ordinance last month banning wind turbines in all non-commercial districts. Walth believes he is exempt from the ordinance, because it would have to be applied retroactively to his turbine.<br /><br />He said he was fined $50, roughly what he estimates the 2.6-kilowatt turbine saves him each month, after he put up the $10,000 turbine without permit. But the fine could increase to $500 per day if he disregards the city's order to remove it.<br /><br />It doesn't pay to go up against City Hall, even in Wishek, ND. Walth scoffs at bureaucratic claims that people have complained about his windmill.<br /><br />"People in this town can't figure out why they're spending all this time to tear it down," he said. "It's on my property. I don't care what they do, even if they get signatures from everyone in town."<br /><br />That's where Walth went wrong: thinking that it's his property. If it were, everyone would agree that it's none of government's business what he does with it — just like if the wealth you create at your job were your property, the government wouldn't seize whatever percentage of your paycheck greedy bureaucrats deem fit.<br /><br />Only in a free country like the late great USA do private citizens own property. In today's USSA, all property is effectively owned by the government, to be managed and even redistributed according to bureaucratic whim. Fortunately for Walth, no Kennedys can see his windmill from their seaside mansions, or he'd really be in trouble.<br /><br />Walth is still hoping that Big Government will give him a 30% energy tax credit for his forbidden turbine.Matthewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-25112749079435549902009-12-11T12:34:49.438-05:002009-12-11T12:34:49.438-05:00http://socglory.blogspot.com/
The public option yo...http://socglory.blogspot.com/<br />The public option you have when you are not having a public option<br /><br />Only in the nation's capitol could people pushing Obamacare keep a straight face while claiming that a new health insurance operation to be run by the same government agency that manages the federal bureaucracy is actually a private program. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, hoping to mollify the liberal wing of his party, insists that it's still a "public option," but everybody else on the Democratic side seems to think the public option has been replaced by this new "private" option. Thus, Reuters News Agency reported that "Democratic Senate sources said the substitute would create a non-profit plan operated by private insurers but administered by the Office of Personnel Management, which supervises health coverage for federal workers." The OPM runs the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, but that is only part of its duties in managing the federal government's 2 million-plus career civil service workers.<br /><br />Call it what they will, Reid and his fellow Obamacrats are still doing what they've been doing for months, seeking 60 Senate votes for a trillion-dollar federal takeover of the nation's health care system. First, it was the banking and automotive industries disappearing into Leviathan's gaping maw; now the health care industry, accounting for one-sixth of the private economy, is about to become a ward of the government, too. If they succeed, Reid and the Obamacrats will turn the day-to-day operation of the world's best health care system over to the same bumbling cast of characters who managed the TARP bailout for pinstriped thieves on Wall Street, the mortgage foreclosure crisis birthed by ACORN's government-backed banking industry blackmail, and the Cash-for-Clunkers debacle. Sleep tight tonight, America, because Barack, Harry and Nancy are taking good care of you.<br /><br />If the claim that government-run health insurance can be a "private" program is patently absurd, this latest Senate Obamacare deal actually includes something even more bizarre. Millions more Americans are to be made eligible for Medicare, which is supposed to be cut by $500 billion to pay for this Rube Goldberg contraption. Go figure. As it is, Medicare is the federal government's biggest entitlement program and the one closest to bankruptcy. According to the latest Medicare Trustees Report, the program has a $36 trillion unfunded liability that is certain to explode in 2011 when the first of the baby boomers retire and begin drawing benefits. Try as Reid and the Obamacrats might, there is no getting away from this cold, hard fact: The government has for decades promised Medicare benefits it cannot pay for without either raising taxes or cutting benefits promised under other government programs. When private corporations promise benefits they can't deliver, it's called "fraud" and company executives go to jail. When Washington politicians do the same thing, it's called "health care reform."Maliknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-32799118824890886932009-12-11T11:52:15.963-05:002009-12-11T11:52:15.963-05:00How many years was it anonymous?How many years was it anonymous?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-38085960456037688052009-12-11T11:42:27.554-05:002009-12-11T11:42:27.554-05:00they make us pay for healthcare for 4 years before...they make us pay for healthcare for 4 years before we get it. would you make payments on a car for 4 years while it depreciates for that 4 yrs and then after that 4 years you can drive that car? how dumb would that be. and we go 4 more years without health care coverage. but we will get taxed on it for 4 years. did I tell you it was 4 years?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-49354840252773370492009-12-11T11:35:56.888-05:002009-12-11T11:35:56.888-05:00Everybody remember how McCain said that we had to ...Everybody remember how McCain said that we had to cut the fat from the government, and Obama said we had to use a "scalpel" to do real careful and precise cutting?!? Well not only is Obummer not using a scalpel, he's actively injecting lard directly into this already bloated and corrupted government. Hypocraty Hope and Change!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-13868659547537398242009-12-11T11:33:51.582-05:002009-12-11T11:33:51.582-05:00For Bruce Failk's ultra-dirty Clintons, more b...For Bruce Failk's ultra-dirty Clintons, more business-as-usual payoffs for the dirty Hypocrats:<br /><br />Mark Penn's two firms awarded millions from stimulus for public relations work<br />By Alexander Bolton - 12/09/09<br /><br />A contract worth nearly $6 million in stimulus funds was awarded by the Obama adminstration to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's pollster in 2008.<br /><br />Federal records show that a contract worth $5.97 million, part of the $787 billion stimulus Congress passed this year, helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.<br /><br />Burson-Marsteller won the contract to work on a public-relations campaign to advertise the national switch from analog to digital television. Nearly $2.8 million of the contract was awarded through a subcontract to Penn's polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland, according to federal records.<br /><br />Federal records also show that a former adviser to President Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign received nearly $70,000 from that contract to help alert viewers in difficult-to-reach communities that their televisions would ssoon no longer receive broadcast signals.<br /><br />The adviser, Alfredo J. Balsera, who heads a public-affairs firm based in Coral Gables, Fla., helped craft Obama’s Hispanic advertising message.<br /><br />Republicans on Tuesday criticized the federal spending on the advertising project as a waste of taxpayer dollars. They noted that the advertising campaign took place on May 5, only 39 days before the digital television transition was scheduled (June 12).<br /><br />GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.) and Tom Coburn (Okla.) held a news conference Tuesday to blast 100 “wasteful” projects funded by the $787 billion economic stimulus package Congress passed earlier this year, concluding that at least $7 billion of the $217 billion spent through November was wasteful and mismanagedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-13648547805865660802009-12-11T11:29:15.828-05:002009-12-11T11:29:15.828-05:00Al, Math was never a Hypocrat's strong suit. T...Al, Math was never a Hypocrat's strong suit. They're much better with feel-good hopeychange.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-35975120845406183382009-12-11T11:27:59.894-05:002009-12-11T11:27:59.894-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-42686394279560318002009-12-11T11:17:28.380-05:002009-12-11T11:17:28.380-05:00Some body help me with the MATH. Obama Care borrow...Some body help me with the MATH. Obama Care borrowing 500 Billion from Medicare which is BROKE,lowering the age to get into Medicare to 55, and then where does the 500 Billion go that they have Borrowed from Medicare,Back to Medicare or WHERE? Now Large Hospitals and Doctors who Backed Nobama Care are Aboandoning their Endorsements of this new SHELL game. Anybody KNOW where the PEA is?ALnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-58161121440594875142009-12-11T11:04:17.197-05:002009-12-11T11:04:17.197-05:00Where ya at Bruce "Epic" Failk? Composin...Where ya at Bruce "Epic" Failk? Composing a letter for help to post on Democratic Underground? Good luck with that, only the most stubborn idiot libertards are standing by the Hypocrats.<br /><br />It's just little ole me pointing out that you Hypocrats are the dirtiest bunch of liars ever. You're strangely silent on the matter. Looks like if you want to vote for the less-corrupt party the Republicans are where it's at. Sure didn't take long for the power to corrupt your white knights, did it Brucie? Well that's because they were already corrupt.<br /><br />BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-56945869499072284942009-12-11T11:00:30.411-05:002009-12-11T11:00:30.411-05:00Somebody get Seattle some global warming STAT. Loo...Somebody get Seattle some global warming STAT. Looks like the "Next Ice Age" alarmists of the '70's were right, only off by about 40 years:<br /><br />Seattle has record lows for second day in row<br />For the second straight day Thursday, the temperature hit a record low in Seattle.<br /><br />For the second straight day Thursday, the temperature hit a record low in Seattle.<br /><br />National Weather Service meteorologist Dustin Guy says the low of 16 before dawn Thursday at Sea-Tac Airport broke the low of 21 set on that date in 1972. Wednesday's record low was 18.<br /><br />Burke says Western Washington temperatures should start warming up over the weekend and might get back to highs in the 40s by Tuesday. He says there's only a chance of snow during the change.<br /><br />Some other Thursday morning temperatures: Olympia 7, Bremerton 14, and Bellingham 14.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-90003584901252244812009-12-11T10:57:09.384-05:002009-12-11T10:57:09.384-05:00I personally like how the Hypocrats are cutting Me...I personally like how the Hypocrats are cutting Medicare, and then they want to expand it, and this is going to save us money? Hmmmm ... supply (doctors, treatments, etc) remains the same, reimbursement goes down, demand goes up, and this is going to save money HOW?! Oh, because it's subsidized! Oh, wait, what are subsidies again? Oh, it's taken from Obama's stash, because he's the president and he has all this money? Oh, thanks for explaining it to me Hypocrats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-45034109141429510872009-12-11T10:53:40.381-05:002009-12-11T10:53:40.381-05:00And just look at what the Hypocrats are doing. Wha...And just look at what the Hypocrats are doing. What do you think about that Bruce? I thought this bill was supposed to help those without insurance, the poor and all that, but they cap what insurance companies have to pay?!?! All this because the bill is so HUGE and ONEROUS that nobody knows what is in it, or who put what in where. It's trash, throw this bill OUT.<br /><br />Health care loophole would allow coverage limits<br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091211/ap_on_go_co/us_health_overhaul_senate_loophole<br /><br />WASHINGTON – A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such as cancer, prompting a rebuke from patient advocates.<br /><br />The legislation that originally passed the Senate health committee last summer would have banned such limits, but a tweak to that provision weakened it in the bill now moving toward a Senate vote.<br /><br />As currently written, the Senate Democratic health care bill would permit insurance companies to place annual limits on the dollar value of medical care, as long as those limits are not "unreasonable." The bill does not define what level of limits would be allowable, delegating that task to administration officials.<br /><br />Adding to the puzzle, the new language was quietly tucked away in a clause in the bill still captioned "No lifetime or annual limits."<br /><br />The 2,074-page bill would carry out President Barack Obama's plan to revamp the health care system, expanding coverage to millions now uninsured and trying to slow budget-busting cost increases. A tentative deal among Senate Democrats to back away from creating a new government program to compete with private insurers appears to have overcome a major obstacle to the bill's passage.<br /><br />Officials of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network said they were taken by surprise when the earlier ban on annual coverage limits was undercut, adding that they have not been able to get a satisfactory explanation.<br /><br />"We don't know who put it in, or why it was put in," said Stephen Finan, a policy expert with the cancer society's advocacy affiliate.<br />Democratic officials of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee would not comment publicly but said the bill contains numerous provisions that will benefit patients with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses, not to mention improvements in preventive care.<br /><br />Advocates for patients say they're concerned the language will stay in the bill all the way to Obama's desk.<br /><br />"The primary purpose of insurance is to protect people against catastrophic loss," Finan said. "If you put a limit on benefits, by definition it's going to affect people who are dealing with catastrophic loss." The cost of cancer treatment can exceed $100,000 a year.<br /><br />Under the health care bills in Congress, the major expansion of health insurance coverage won't take place until three to four years after enactment. Democrats have touted a series of consumer protections as immediate benefits Americans will secure through the legislation. Both the Senate and House bills, for example, ban lifetime limits on the dollar value of coverage.<br /><br />But Finan said the change in the Senate bill essentially invalidates the legislation's ban on lifetime limits.<br /><br />"If you can have annual limits, saying there's no lifetime limits becomes meaningless," he said. A patient battling aggressive disease in its later stages could conceivably exhaust insurance benefits in the course of a year.<br /><br />It's unclear how widespread such coverage limits are in the current insurance marketplace. Large employers have moved away from coverage limits, but insurers have wide discretion in designing plans for small businesses and individual customers.<br /><br />In the House bill, neither annual nor lifetime limits would be allowable under an essential benefits package intended to provide comprehensive coverage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-62337562883433480722009-12-11T10:33:56.259-05:002009-12-11T10:33:56.259-05:00More CORRUPT HYPOCRATS for your reading enjoyment....More CORRUPT HYPOCRATS for your reading enjoyment. I'm digging this Bruce "Epic" Failk. Thanks for convincing me to look more into it. These Hypocrats that you worship have to be the dirtiest politicians ever, and that is saying something. Boy, we really need to put these Hypocrats in charge of 1/6th of our economy, not to mention their cap and tax boondoggle:<br /><br />Ethics probes may saddle Democrats in 2010<br />By JOHN BRESNAHAN | 12/11/09<br />http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30474.html<br /><br />Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) is the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.<br /><br />The House ethics committee investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) is likely to extend well into 2010, according to sources familiar with the probe, meaning that the fate of the powerful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee could become a major political issue for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and the Democratic leadership during a difficult election year.<br /><br />The committee’s investigation of Rangel’s personal finances, now 14 months old, has dragged on far longer than both Pelosi and Rangel had hoped. Pelosi predicted in late 2008 that it would be over by the end of that year or early 2009. Now sources familiar with the Rangel probe say the investigation could continue into February or March.<br /><br />The veteran New York lawmaker is the most prominent — but hardly the only — Democrat facing ethical questions.<br /><br />Recently, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi has had to deny allegations that he used his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee to help raise campaign contributions.<br /><br />In addition, the Justice Department is continuing its criminal investigation into Democratic lawmakers’ dealings with the PMA Group, a now-defunct lobbying firm that specialized in winning multimillion-dollar spending earmarks from the Appropriations Committee for its clients.<br /><br />Rep. Pete Visclosky of Indiana, a senior member of the Appropriations panel, and his former top aide Charles Brimmer were issued subpoenas as part of that investigation earlier this year. The DOJ probe is ongoing, according to multiple sources.<br /><br />And on the other side of the Capitol, Sen. Max Baucus of Montana faces accusations that he nominated his girlfriend for a U.S. attorney position in the Justice Department, while Sen. Roland Burris of Illinois was recently admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee for failing to fully disclose his contacts with indicted former Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich over an appointment to the Senate seat vacated by now-President Barack Obama.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-8730715013608887552009-12-11T10:30:19.457-05:002009-12-11T10:30:19.457-05:00Whoops, forgot the link to the above story, in cas...Whoops, forgot the link to the above story, in case Epic Failk thinks I made it up or something: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30478.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-92010877741461839672009-12-11T10:29:13.740-05:002009-12-11T10:29:13.740-05:00And more easy spending by that asshole Baucus. Bru...And more easy spending by that asshole Baucus. Bruce Fealk thinks this kind of thing is just fine to spend out tax dollars on. It's that kind of thinking that, yep, turned Detroit into the wasteland that it is now. Dirty F**KING HYPOCRATS.<br /><br />Max Baucus gave girlfriend $14K raise<br />By MANU RAJU & JOHN BRESNAHAN | 12/11/09<br /><br />Sen. Max Baucus recently acknowledged his relationship with Melodee Hanes, whom he nominated for the job of U.S. attorney in Montana, after it was first reported on the website MainJustice.com<br /><br />Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, gave a nearly $14,000 pay raise to a female staffer in 2008, at the time he was becoming romantically involved with her, and later that year took her on a taxpayer-funded trip to Southeast Asia and the Middle East, though foreign policy was not her specialty.<br /><br />Late last Friday, Baucus acknowledged his relationship with Melodee Hanes, whom he nominated for the job of U.S. attorney in Montana, after it was first reported on the website MainJustice.com. But he said that Hanes withdrew from consideration for the job when the relationship became more serious. The next day, he dismissed calls for an ethics investigation, saying, “I went out of my way to be up and up.”<br /><br />Since his announcement, more details of the relationship have emerged, raising questions about a workplace romance between a boss and employee that Baucus tried to keep quiet and also contradicting his explanation for why Hanes’s nomination was withdrawn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-55779496776981145402009-12-11T10:26:28.166-05:002009-12-11T10:26:28.166-05:00You're singing my song anonymous.You're singing my song anonymous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-42116580652682731392009-12-11T10:25:52.087-05:002009-12-11T10:25:52.087-05:00Here's some more Hypocrat easy spending bullsh...Here's some more Hypocrat easy spending bullshit. This is the kind of thinking that turned Detroit into the hellhole that it is now:<br /><br />http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20091211/1afedpay11_st.art.htm?loc=interstitialskip<br />For feds, more get 6-figure salaries<br />Average pay $30,000 over private sector<br />By Dennis Cauchon<br />USA TODAY <br /><br />The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.<br /><br />Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.<br /><br />Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.<br /><br />The highest-paid federal employees are doing best of all on salary increases. Defense Department civilian employees earning $150,000 or more increased from 1,868 in December 2007 to 10,100 in June 2009, the most recent figure available.<br /><br />When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.<br /><br />The trend to six-figure salaries is occurring throughout the federal government, in agencies big and small, high-tech and low-tech. The primary cause: substantial pay raises and new salary rules.<br /><br />"There's no way to justify this to the American people. It's ridiculous," says Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a first-term lawmaker who is on the House's federal workforce subcommittee.<br /><br />Jessica Klement, government affairs director for the Federal Managers Association, says the federal workforce is highly paid because the government employs skilled people such as scientists, physicians and lawyers. She says federal employees make 26% less than private workers for comparable jobs.<br /><br />USA TODAY analyzed the Office of Personnel Management's database that tracks salaries of more than 2 million federal workers. Excluded from OPM's data: the White House, Congress, the Postal Service, intelligence agencies and uniformed military personnel.<br /><br />The growth in six-figure salaries has pushed the average federal worker's pay to $71,206, compared with $40,331 in the private sector.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705675907060089073.post-53743146585329972202009-12-11T10:22:38.510-05:002009-12-11T10:22:38.510-05:00its people like bruce fealk that is wrong with thi...its people like bruce fealk that is wrong with this country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com